Theme: Hotel
Focus: Reading and Vocabulary
HOTEL TYPES AND DEPARTMENTS
Hotel types can be categorized depending on the criteria used to classify them such as hotel size, number of rooms, location, target market, ownership and affiliation, etc. Kate (2007:1) and Types of Hotels (2012:1) suggested types of hotels which can be classified into ten types according to specific purposes.
1. Commercial Hotels
These hotels primarily cater to business travellers and usually located in downtown or business districts. These are also known as Business Hotels.
2. Airport Hotels
This kind of hotels typically provides accommodation for airline passengers with overnight travel layovers or cancelled flights and airline crews or staff, usually located near the airports.
3. Suite Hotels
This type of hotels is the latest trend and the fastest growing segments of the hotel industry. It has a living room and a separate bedroom. Professionals such as accountants, lawyers, businessmen, and executives find suite hotels particularly attractive as they can also entertain in an area beside the bed room.
4. Extended Stay Hotels
This kind of hotels is similar to the suite hotels, but usually offers kitchen amenities in the room. It is for long-stay guests who want to stay more than a week and does not want to spend on hotel facilities.
5. Lifestyle/Boutique Hotels
This type of hotels gives guests a vacation setting with original decoration and service. The architecture of the hotel may be notable or the hotel has period furniture, artistic touches or other fetching themes.
6. Residential Hotels
These hotels provide long-term or permanent accommodation for guests. A guest usually makes a lease agreement with hotel for the minimum of one month up to a year. The room usually includes living room, bed room, kitchen, private balcony, washing machine, kitchen utensils, etc.
7. Resort Hotels
This type of hotels is usually located in the mountains, on an island, or in some other exotic locations away from the cities. Recreational activities, scenery, golf, tennis, sailing, skiing, and swimming are provided.
8. Casino Hotels
They are hotels with gambling facilities. Food and beverage operations are provided to support the casino operations in the hotels.
9. Conference and Convention Center Hotels
This type of hotels focuses on meeting and conferences and overnight accommodation for meeting attendees. The hotels also provide video conferencing facilities, audiovisual equipment, business services, flexible seating arrangements, flipcharts, etc. They are mostly located outside the metropolitan areas and have facilities like golf, swimming pools, tennis courts, fitness centers, and spas, etc.
10. Bed-and-Breakfast Hotels/Home-stay
This kind of hotels is a house with rooms converted into overnight facilities to accommodate one to ten guest rooms. The owner of the hotel usually stay on the premises and responsible for serving breakfast for the guest.
